Senior Application Engineering Lead – Debit Card & Wallet

Vanguard; Majestic (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide technical leadership across digital products including Cash Plus Debit Card and Digital Wallet integrations. You will design and maintain scalable frontend and backend solutions, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams.

Collaborate with product and domain architects to align business requirements with technical roadmaps, evaluate third-party services, and ensure security, reliability, and regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of technology architect experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level technical leadership for digital products and platforms supporting payments and wallet integration.
• Lead design, development, and maintenance of scalable frontend and backend solutions.
• Partner with PMs and Architects to translate requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party products, APIs, and services ensuring scalability and health.
• Review designs, code, testing strategies, and documentation for quality and security.
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and cross-team technical decisions.
• Drive performance, resiliency, observability, accessibility, and operational excellence.
• Identify risks, perform root-cause analysis, and lead timely resolutions.
• Promote engineering standards, secure coding, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Communicate strategy and impact to stakeholders and influence technology investments.
• Mentor engineers and promote continuous learning and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise policies and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Enterprise web apps

Angular

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

NestJS

GraphQL

AWS cloud services

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Observability tooling

Regulated industry experience

Mobile-web integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, Fargate)

GitHub Actions

AppDynamics

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Adobe Analytics

GraphQL

NestJS

React

Angular

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide technical leadership across digital products including Cash Plus Debit Card and Digital Wallet integrations. You will design and maintain scalable frontend and backend solutions, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams.

Collaborate with product and domain architects to align business requirements with technical roadmaps, evaluate third-party services, and ensure security, reliability, and regulatory compliance